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Confrontational and surprising, its the comic equivalent of not just airing a marriage’s dirty laundry in public, but broadcasting it on a Jumbotron.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2026

Apple has mostly refrained from airing its dirty laundry in public - at the request of the regulator, it said.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

For several hours on Wednesday, a fired public health official went before Congress and aired Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dirty laundry.

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2025

In the nearly two decades that “Housewives” has been on the air, these women have gone from private citizens to public figures and aired their dirty laundry for the world to see.

From Salon • May 5, 2025

She studied me distastefully, like I was a bag of dirty laundry she’d been sent to fetch.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan




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